EDBT 2025 Summer School: Call for Applications

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management
7th to 11th of July, 2025,
University of Cyprus,
Nicosia, Cyprus

https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 7th, 2025!
* Registration Open! (Limited Seats of about 60 participants)
* Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001

* Student Grants will be announced later
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The EDBT association and the University of Cyprus are happy to announce a
jointly sponsored Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data
Management, which will be hosted at the Resource Center "Stelios Ioannou",
University of Cyprus, Monday July 7, 2025 to Friday, July 11, 2025.
It will cover a diverse range of topics around artificial intelligence
and data management, with a special focus on Large Language Models, AI agents
and Vector Databases. It will have 9 tutorials from internationally renowned
researchers in the field, and several social activities. Each tutorial
will be 3 hour long.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
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The summer school will feature 9 invited speakers. The preliminary
list of speakers along with tentative titles (in order of appearance)
is listed below:

+ Prof. Ioana Manolescu (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
| "Interconnection of Heterogeneous Data using AI"

+ Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, France)
| "AI Planning for Data Exploration"

+ Dr. Charalampos Tsourakakis (RelationalAI & Boston University, USA)
| "Algorithmic Techniques in Graph Analytics"
| "Machine Learning in Graph Analytics"

+ Prof. Volker Markl (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
| "Large-scale Data Management in Flink"
| "Edge Data Management in NebulaStream"

+ Prof. Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, USA & Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
| "Neuro-inspired AI for Continual Learning"
| "The New Mathematics of Deep Learning"

+ Prof. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)
| "Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications"
| "Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries"

+ Prof. Li Xiong (Emory University, USA)
| "Large Language Models and Privacy"

+ Prof. Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA)
| "DeepNN for Private Spatiotemporal Queries"
| "Synthetic Trajectory Generation"

TARGET AUDIENCE
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The school will be open to about 60 qualified, motivated and pre-selected
candidates. The school is primarily intended for graduate (Master’s & PhD)
students and post-doctoral researchers, but we also welcome motivated
applications from advanced undergraduate students and academic and industrial
researchers. There are no formal prerequisites, but prior experience in one
or more of the following areas would be helpful for benefiting from the
lectures of the school:

Data Management, AI & Machine Learning, Data Mining, Informational Retrieval,
Parallel and Distributed and Cloud Computing.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
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The EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management community is committed
to the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our
professional activities (https://dbdni.github.io/). We celebrate the
diversity in our community and welcome everyone regardless of age, gender
identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of origin,
religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, and work
experience. We also welcome people and opinions of all political
persuasions, as long as they abide by the ACM policy against harassment.
(https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment)

STUDENT GRANTS
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There will be a limited number of grants (fellowships). Half grants cover
the registration fee, while full grants also cover accommodation in a student
residence room. A call for applying for these grants will be announced later
and applicants must briefly explain why attendance could not be financed
by other means. Grants will be awarded taking into account the applicant’s
profile (motivations, research background), financial need and diversity and
inclusion aspects. Grants will be announced after the application deadline
on the website.

REGISTRATION
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All Registration options include:
+ Tutorial Lectures
+ Coffee Breaks
+ 5 Lunches
+ 1 Banquet Dinner
+ 2 Dinners
+ Welcome Cocktail (with Snacks)
+ 1 Tour Trip
+ Bus from Hotel to Venue (two way).
+ Registration options with accommodation include Breakfast

There are three registration options:
+ Registration with No Accommodation:                      600.00 euro
+ Registration with (Shared) Twin Room (5 nights):        850.00 euro
+ Registration with (Private) Single Room (5 nights):    1100.00 euro

*** Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001 ***

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for applications:  Monday, April 7, 2025
Notification of acceptance: Monday, April 14, 2025
Deadline for registration:  Monday, April 28, 2025
Summer school: July 7–11, 2025

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT
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- Venue: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#venue

- Accommodation: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#local_info

- Special Lufthansa Group airlines fares for flights to Larnaca or Paphos:
https://www.lufthansa.com/content/lh/markets/cy/en/event/edbt-summer-school-2025-jul


ORGANIZATION
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Prof. Demetris Zeinalipour
University of Cyprus
https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/


Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis
University of Cyprus and University of Pittsburgh, USA
https://panos.cs.pitt.edu/


For academic matters, please contact the organizers
at edbt2025summerschool@gmail.com

Local Arrangements Contact:
> Help with travel, accommodation and visa issues (if attending outside Europe):
- Email: info@easyconferences.eu
- Call us at: +357 22 591 900